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Evening Street Review, NUMBER 29, mid-Spring 2021

Issue: Number 29, mid-Spring 2021

Contents

EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes: Bill Herring “This Little Sparrow” inside front cover

Neglected Help: Woody Guthrie Verses of “This Land is Your Land” you might not know inside back cover

Cover photo: “Nesting Tree, Bay Farm Island, Alameda, CA” Andrena Zawinski

Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Kailen Nourse-Driscoll, Patti Sullivan, Anthony Mohr, L.D. Zane, Stacia Levy, Jeffrey Davis, Clela Reed, Matthew Mendoza, Matthew Spireng, Ace Boggess, Kristin Laurel

Contributors: 170

Fiction

SUSAN KNOX Teacher, Teacher 6
SCOTT PEDERSEN While Dad’s Away 14
GARY STECIUK While the Giant Sleeps 21
MURZBAN F SHROFF The Homecoming 28
KENNETH M KAPP Leaping Lenny 39
DENNIS VANNATTA Doo-dah, Doo-dah 44
DANIEL KENITZ The Cycle 60
FRED MCGAVRAN Light from Light 76
RICHARD RISEMBERG The Rescuer 106
BILL JONES Switchblade 115
PHILIP GOLDBERG Dummy No More 125

ZAN BOCKES The Story of a Story 135
MICHAEL FRYD The Reunion 158
BRAD SHURMANTINE Office Party 163

Nonfiction

ANGELA BIER The Reason Why 36
MELANIE CHARTOFF Happily Never After 53
EDA ZAHL Big Noise in the Jungle 95
MALLY Z RAY Getting Thrown 145
ROGER REAL DROUIN Birding with Julien 155

Poetry

BILL HERRING This Little Sparrow inside front cover
MATTHEW FEENEY What I long for… 6
MICHAEL HARMON Open Book 11

The Artificial Kind 11
The Great Agnostic Dies 12

PAULA YUP My Father’s Knife 18

Doing Nothing 19

DEBORAH H DOOLITTLE Their Life Before

This One 20

GREG STIDHAM Raccoon Hour 26

Pens and Indentations 27
Rosary 28

DORTY NOWAK Q&A 35
IRIS LITT Upon the Discovery in Persia of Bodies
Preserved by Sand 38
CRAIG EVENSON Tinnitus 43
BRIAN C BILLINGS Three Colors of Denver 49

A Holiday Robbery 50
Driving Lesson 51
Dry January 51
The Moms Who Stayed in the
Maynard House 52

LOIS ROSEN Fire Escape 56

At the Conservatory Orchid Show 57
Seamstress 58
When She Finally Called Back 59
Fire Hydrant Hero 59

MICHELLE M TOKARCZYK Gray 73
Farewell to My Bicycle, 1997-2019 74

 

 

MARION DEUTSCHE COHEN Math 93

Lives 94
The Big Bangs Theory 94

KAREN ARNOLD Monet and the Moment 105
JACQUELINE HENRY Refrain 113

Blue 114

SUSAN FLYNN Isthmus of Silence 121

King Fire 122
Two Questions and a Six-foot Memory 123
BRUCE ROBINSON Police Blotter 133
Dozens of Eggs in a Carton, and
a Dozen Rules of Thumb 135

BARBARA TRAMONTE God and Real Estate 135
SHARON KENNEDY-NOLLE Specimens 141

Greystone Chip Shots 142
Um, Bye. 143
Buyer’s Remorse 143
A Year after Failing You 144

MICHAEL T SMITH Bakku-Shan 154
ELEANORE LEE Memory 155
LEISHA DOUGLAS Hopi Necklace 157
SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI Hungry Tigers 161

Painted Angels 162

BETSY FOGELMAN TIGHE An Unidentified Performer… 167

At 5, My Blood Aunt Teaches Me

What She Could Never Do 168

The Chinese Girl Speaks 168
Snowstorm, Central Park, NY
Platinum Print, 1917 Laura Gilpin 169

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